Muscadet Les Perrieres Granit Belle Vue 2019

Muscadet Les Perrieres Granit Belle Vue, natural wine, 100% Melon de Bourgogne, Granite soils, distinctive lean mineral character.  A new cuvee from Muscadet maestro, Jerome Bretaudeau, from a parcel with soils that are of mainly granite composition.  The wine is clean, very well balanced, precise but layers of texture and minerality.  Some white wines seem to have a unique drinkability and the Muscadets from Jerome are always like that.  Muscadet Les Perrieres Granit is simply lovely, impossible not to enjoy, versatile but also very gastronomic.   For anyone who loves lean, elegant dry white wine, this is a must.  With seafood, absolutely stunning.

Jérôme Bretaudeau's story is one of passion for wine and only wine.

He set up the 9 hectare Domaine in 2005 after working for over 15 years at other estates and converted to organic production in 2009. The soils at Domaine de Bellevue are what give it the capability to make hand crafted terroir wines which truly vary from soil to soil. They are are made up pockets of clay interspersed with silica pebbles, white and pink quartz and also some volcanic rocks allowing strong minerality and complexity for the wines. The vines are old and various with unusual grape varieties for the Muscadet area (Chardonnay, Gamay, Merlot, Pinot Gris and others). He uses a combination of large clay eggs and used barrels to ferment and mature his wines. Internships with Jo Landon and Guy Bossard (two giants of the area) gave him the taste for natural wine making and thus since 2009 he has been certified organic. The wines are elegant, precise characterful.